Whiteboard Wednesday: The Probability of Getting Tasks Done

The ability to get everything on your task list done becomes less and less probable with the number of tasks and you load into your week or iteration. The simple math of compounding probabilities is a good analogy to prove this point.

At the end of this video, what I should have said (for clarity) was that you should under promise and over deliver. Accomplishing that alone, there is no need for fancy math as you have already learned the lesson that the analogy is attempting to deliver.

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